Ansible Motion has entered into a partnership with AVL Mobility Technologies (AVL), to combine AVL’s VSM simulation software with its driver-in-the-loop simulators. The virtual development collaboration is intended to help enable vehicle manufacturers and suppliers to develop components and vehicles more quickly by reducing the time (and associated costs) of development, testing and validation.
AVL VSM is a real-time simulation tool designed to enable users to model components, systems and complete vehicles. The platform allows users to test vehicle dynamics and performance in realistic scenarios, helping optimising vehicle characteristics in a short time, and in safety. VSM enables simultaneous consideration of various vehicle attributes and components, and how they interact with each other.
When VSM is paired with an Ansible Motion driver-in-the-loop simulator, the user can test the changes to the virtual model and refine the chassis dynamics, powertrain drivability, ADAS and active safety function calibration with a virtual test drive.
“By combining AVL VSM with Ansible Motion driver-in-the-loop simulators, manufacturers can move critical decisions to the front of the development cycle, dramatically reducing physical prototypes and test iterations,” explained Gary Newton, AVL’s vice president of business development.
“This tool combination can have an enormous impact on timeline and budget. Imagine validating 70+ track scenarios per day in multiple conditions, surfaces and drive events. The result isn’t incremental improvement; it’s months saved and millions preserved.”
As part of the collaboration, AVL has installed an Ansible Motion Theta Seat simulator in its technical centre at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, where customers can try out the addition of the VSM simulation software. Customers can take their virtual models and see how they work with AVL‘s Software-in-the-Loop (SiL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) and Virtual Test Bed (VTB) technologies in AVL’s Advanced Mobility & Simulation Lab.
“Through our continuing collaborative efforts with AVL, we’re developing new ways to conduct subjective and objective evaluations of qualified concepts much earlier in the vehicle design cycle,” added Salman Safdar, Ansible Motion’s business development director.
